It is commonly accepted that two connected passed pawns on the 6th and/or 7th ranks are stronger than a rook. But there are always exceptions. Here they are no stronger than the rook, and a last-minute mistake by my opponent allowed the rook to pr... |Read More

While I have still been playing live games, it has been a very long while since I played a correspondance game or posted to the blog. I don't plan to resume regular blogging due to time constraints, but for what it's worth:
Then there also was o... |Read More

I achieved this position against the hardest level of Chess Titans as White:
I believe it is a model mate because all of my pieces contribute, that for each of the king's possible escape squares, there is exactly one reason the king cannot move ... |Read More

I composed this position, with White to move. White has a huge variety of mates in one, and some more in a few more moves. There are two worst-possible moves, which force Black to mate White in three.
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Being up an exchange is not easy nevertheless in the endgame. The trick here was to advance my pawn as far as possible, and prove that the diagonal was too short for White's bishop to defend the queening square.
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